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This is the eighth year in which Examination Results in Scottish Schools has been published. The report is now one of five which between them cover Examination Results, Attendance and Absence, Costs, Leaver Destinations and Targets.
The annual reports on Examination Results in Scottish Schools are well-recognised and useful publications which make publicly available information at individual school level, by education authority and across the country as a whole.
It is important to note that information about examination results should be set alongside other indicators of achievement, of the quality of learning and teaching and of the ethos of the school. Schools and education authorities are encouraged to include further information, set out as they think best, to provide the detailed local context within which schools work.
The importance of good attainment in schools is universally recognised. The initiative on setting targets and raising standards has led to all schools setting targets for attainment for the period up to 2001. This is reflected in the addition to the series of the report on Targets in Scottish Schools which will be published in December 1999.
Douglas A Osler
HM Senior Chief Inspector of Schools
November 1999
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